05/05/2026
Tonight!
We hope to see you here!
Please join us for the 2026 Natalie Mayer Lecture in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, as we present " My Underground Mother", a film by Marisa Fox.
Tuesday, May 5th - 6:30 pm - Xavier Hall, Room 201.
“You think you know your mother until you don’t,” says filmmaker Marisa Fox. Tamar was a New York doctor’s wife who claimed she fled her native Poland on the cusp of World War II and was never a Holocaust “victim.” Twenty years after her death, Fox, a journalist and mother, learns Tamar had a secret identity and chases down leads that span the globe, uncovering a story of N**i trafficking and a defiant band of sisters in a women’s forced labor camp. Dogged research, extraordinary archival imagery and staggeringly candid interviews reveal a portrait of a woman who dared to be the hero of her own story, transforming herself from N**i slave to freedom fighter, from refugee to spy and saboteur, ultimately reinventing herself as a matriarch in America. A real-life story of a daughter coming to terms with a woman who went to extraordinary lengths not to be defined by trauma.”
To learn more, and to register for this remarkable event, please visit:
https://www.plu.edu/hgst/natalie-mayer-endowed-lecture-series/
